1968 Map of Mulligan Lake

About this map

Beltrami Island State Forest defines this vast northern Minnesota landscape, where the convergence of Roseau, Beltrami, and Lake of the Woods counties creates a complex jurisdictional boundary in the late 1960s. The terrain is a mosaic of wetlands and forest, dominated by the Red Lake Indian Reservation and the Red Lake State Wildlife Management Area. Human activity is largely confined to a network of unimproved Jeep Trails and standard Trails that weave through the marshy lowlands surrounding Mulligan Lake and the meandering Roseau River. A small Gravel Pit near the reservation boundary and the headwaters of Hansen Creek indicate localized extraction in an otherwise largely undeveloped wilderness preserved for conservation and tribal use.